Shaun Newman Podcast - 2'sDay Mashup #10

Episode Date: June 28, 2022

222 minutes hops on for our discussion on the headlines of the week. This week the Avalanche win the cup, 3 million for zero trees, Trudeau tied up in yet another scandal, Roe v Wade & mental health spending non existent.  Let me know what you think Text me 587-217-8500

All right. Welcome back to the Tuesday mashup. Of course, I'm Sean Newman, host of the Sean Newman podcast. I'm joined by the lovely twos 222 minutes. And of course, he's earned the name boxhead on this show because nobody gets to see his face except for me. Poor bastard. It's a punishment I'm willing to take. We thank you for your service. That's right. That's right. Now, of course, this week, we're going to have a bunch of headlines from the week. as it was and two minutes a piece and we'll see where we get to so to lead it off liberals spent $3.1 million planting trees and they planted a total of zero zero so where did the money go well most of it went to wages actually it's this is the kind of thing that's just going to surprise absolutely nobody they spent $3.1 million planting zero trees so it's not even like they planted one they didn't even do a pilot project or even just like a little sort of area or something like that.

They have spent $3 million planning this. Have you ever looked at Google Maps or if you ever looked at Canada on Google Maps? You know when you zoom out and you're not in satellite mode but in like that that kind of where things are green and yellow and stuff like that. All that green stuff, the whole top half of Canada. Do you know why it's green? Trees? Because fucking trees.

Okay. And so we decided we're going to plant a bunch of. million trees in a country that is just primarily trees. It's more trees than anything else. And they spent $3.1 million planning how to plant more trees without actually getting more trees into the ground. Honestly, this could not be the more, the only way this could be more liberal is if it was S&C Lavlin and Aga Khan doing it as joint venture.

You know how much fun it would have been, though, if they would have planted like one tree. Well, that would be great because the math, the right path right now is undefined, right? it's infinite. But then they could say, okay, well, this is our $3 million tree. I wonder what a $3 million tree looks like. It looks like every other tree, Sean. That's the problem. You think so?

I feel like maybe you could get somewhere in this world, there is like a $2 million tree just run around. It's not really running around, but it's sitting there. Some birds are going to land on it. There's a guy waiting to shoot it. Like, you get off my tree. The wamping willow, Harry Potter, that might be a million. a tree. It protects itself.

Yeah. Yeah. Somewhere. That's a blast for the past. Avalanche win the Stanley Cup. I know we had our arguments here about the Battle of Alberta and everything else. Did you watch the game? First off, did you, did you watch game six? I didn't watch game six. I didn't watch game six. Was it game four or game five where they had, where they had to go back to the replay and that goal got disallowed because it went back over the blue line. Are we talking to Oilers right now? Are we not talking the Stanley Cup final? Yeah, Stanley Cup final. This year. I'm sorry, you're bringing up harsh memories of playing the

Colorado Avalanche. Okay. Kale McCar scores while they're completely offside, but some weird part of the rule still says that it's on side. Just saying. The Edmonton Oilers haven't been in a Stanley Cup final for quite some time, Sean. That'd be the Calgary Flames too. You are trapped in the past. That's Calgary Flames too. Did you see that Gary Bettman didn't hand out the cup? for the first time that was 1993 honestly the guy they didn't even get the guy gets more booed bill daily but bill daily just got to get moving and i mean you're booing you're booing the wrong guy he mentioned his name and they booed he's got coven that's that's why he's not there he's got yeah isn't that isn't that just a little convenient that's kind of thing you'd expect frito to do

you're like oh yeah we've got some questions for you i got covid oh hey um can you please sign for this i've got covid oh um hey dad can you help me with my math hobert coven right betman i mean the guys get how many time has to be the most unlike person in the entire franchise so yeah any excuse to get away from getting food which he does every year kale kail mccar on a side note kail mccar is maybe the best defenseman i've ever watched but two how many kids this year you know we used to joke when i was younger you know the dog ate your homework how many kids actually use co i can't make it in i got kov and you know the teacher's like it's such bullshit but literally what can they

do. I'm sure it haven't quite a bit in the workplace too, especially when any time a union was involved, right? Because because it was sacrosanct. You can't say, you can't question it. Is that how I get out of a Tuesday matchup? Got them bad. Just can't do it. You cannot get out. It is, it is in blood. New research has found the communist Chinese government helped Trudeau win the last election. I thought this would be a little bit bigger of a headline. Just just saying. I'm sorry, are you assuming that we have unbiased media coverage? Fair enough. Fair enough. Fair enough. This might be the only headline I've ever read of O'Toole where I'm like, oh, that's really interesting. Former Conservative Party leader, Aaron O'Toole, who led his party to the forum, the official opposition, said on a podcast after the election, the party had lost eight or nine seats to foreign interference from China.

And the interesting thing is that if they're down eight or nine seats, presumably the liberals are up eight or nine seats. So, you know, it's that difference of 16 to 18. Assuming it's right, I didn't see anything with him backing it up with any sort of statistics. or anything like that. But Michael Chong talked about it. And so he's the foreign affairs critic who's Chinese, well, Chinese Canadian. And so he's kind of just their, it's, if they do anything, if that is critical of China, they always get accused to be a racist.

So they've got their one Chinese guy that they go in who's critical of China. He's the token Chinese guy. He's the token Chinese guy. And they're like, oh, well, you can't call me racist. And they still do anyway, but it just doesn't work. And it's just, it's funny how silly this is, this whole thing. I would absolutely believe it. I mean, you think about it.

Like, if you were China, you would want, okay, go back to the NHL real quick. Do I want Connor McDavid playing for you guys? No, I want me skating up and playing because you guys are going to suck and you're going to lose and it's going to be awesome, right? You want, you want your opponents to have the shittiest team possible. So if you're China and you're going to lose. looking across the pawn at Canada. Are you going to elect the conservatives?

Well, I mean, they're pretty much the same. But whatever. The point is, is that if you're going to elect the shittiest people, you're going to help the liberals win, just like you tried to help Hillary win in the last election in the states. RC&P, this should be everywhere, which it kind of isn't really. The RC&P commissioner allegedly interfered with an investigation

into the largest mass shooting in Canada's history at the behest of the prime minister. As we recall, is it believe is 22 victims 2 years ago. 22. Yes. So for for comparison's sake,

you know, just in case we just want a long cock who has the best shooting. That recent one in Texas was 21. Sandy Hook was 28. Nobody's big dick in this. Okay? Nobody's big. But the point is, the point is that if you take where,

this was just me leading into things. Sure. And where I'm going with this is that if you were to take either one of those things from the states. And now all of a sudden you've got Trump or DeSantis or anybody, anybody trying to just be like, we are going to get the head of the FBI to actively squash this so that, oh shit, that already happened. Okay.

So new plan. All right. The point is, this is a big fucking deal. The problem with this, here's the big overarching problem with this, is that if it is substantiated and there's a lot of people who've gone to bat defending the guy who's no gut included the second time around that they omitted the first time, which makes him suspect to begin with. But if Trudeau can walk away from this, he is politically invincible. And then who fucking knows? See, I get the fact that for some people out there, he's your guy. You want

them to win. You want him to succeed. But at some point, you have to draw the line. And if you can't draw the line on political interference from the very fucking top into an investigation in the biggest mass shooting in this country's history, you have no line. And that guy, has no line and if he won't stop there he will stop at nothing. S&C. Lavlin was fucking baby telling frolics compared to this. I'll let's play. I actually really agree with everything you just said. Perfect.

That may not happen on everything. Rovers Wade overturned in the U.S. You know how I feel about American politics, but I'm kind of curious what a man has to say about Rovers Wade because this is... Do you just assume my gender? I did. I did. Are you trying to tell me you identify as something else? That's fine.

If you want to, two, do you want to identify something else? I would love to hear this conversation. My preferred pronouns are 222 and twos. Okay, okay, fair enough. Punch me in the face. Carry on. All right. So actually, you know what? Maybe, I mean, you've got a pretty strong tie to the states there. Maybe you could correct me if I'm wrong here. My understanding is that this was just Roevey Wade. the ruling meant that the federal government in the states had the absolute say, and then overturning it, they said, no, we don't have the absolute say. It's up for you guys to figure it out.

So they didn't say, they didn't say, you know, no more abortions or anything at all like that. All they just said was it's not our call to make, which I think I don't know if that's right or not, but as far as the stance goes, I think that's reasonable. As far as I understand, they took away the federal and pushed it back down to the state by state. I think probably the most hilarious thing about this entire thing. If there is any part that about it is funny, because honestly, when it gets into pro-life, pro-choice, I see how difficult of an issue this can become. The extremes aren't difficult to me. It's the middle part.

That's absolutely fair. I do find this part very, very absolutely the only way it can happen is in Canada with our prime minister. Come to us. We'll honor your abortion. But first, you got to have your vaccines. Yeah. Yeah. My body, my choice.

You know what? Those assholes better remember my body, my choice when they try and make me fucking crickets. I'll tell you that. You want to hear funny side note real quick. Alyssa Milano was complaining on Twitter that Roe v. Wade being overturned. was going to disproportionately affect the LGBT plus community. Now, Alyssa Milano, I don't know if you're a huge expert on biology,

but I'll do the gesture over here where the face, where the block is not blocking it. Same-sex relationships? Abortion isn't really a high priority in same-sex relationships. I can't believe I've got to say that out loud. I did see that. I did see that. That did give me a good chuckle. Ex-liberal MP, and I'm going to screw up this name.

Raj, Garwal invited lenders to a private meet and greet with Trudeau. You remember you're still, you probably got to go through anti-bribery training and stuff like that. And when I was working in my previous life, I had to take these anti-brivery courses like every year, maybe even every six months. I'm like, who the hell is doing this? Well, that's because your company works globally. I used to work for a company in a similar situation. But I know I read this story. I used to walk around with suitcases full of cash.

Too's, I read this story and I'm like, literally, this is what? He's got a $200,000 check. And you're like, at no point, did anyone think this was a bad idea? I just, to me. He absolutely did. But he didn't disclose it to the ethics commissioner. And so that's why he's not in politics anymore. But this guy was basically trying to pay off his gambling debts by fast-tracking people's immigration into Canada

and giving them glad-handing with the prime minister's office, which is something you shouldn't be doing in a regular-ass democracy, but you can totally do it in this one. Yeah, like I just, once again, I just go, us common folk, I get the anti-bribery training. I'm like, who the hell is doing this? Who wouldn't know you're not supposed to do that? I read this and I'm like, oh, this is who it's for.

They actually do this and then give all the minions the training, and they don't do any of it. and they just carry on with life, just doing utter stupidity. Right? I mean, they don't listen, but here's the thing. I guarantee you that this happens all the time every day in Ottawa.

The only difference between this and all the other bullshit is that this is tied to a gambling debt. Fair. Federal liberals. No, wait a second. Perfect storm looms over young Canadians' retirement. This is,

they did a survey. Young Canadians, 45% of them are saying they're now terrified that their only way of retirement. And now I'm paraphrasing, was they relying on selling their house and that's how they were going to afford retirement. Yeah. I don't think that's. So that's a shitty retirement plan. If anybody's listening, I am not a financial planner.

I am not licensed to give financial advice. But to do that, you have to basically figure out that you're going to die by a certain point. And if you don't, you're fucked. And you're fucked at the worst point. You're like literally fucked at like 70. Yeah, you can't just, yeah, if you figure you got enough money to live to 80 and then you're going to be the Walmart greener for the last 10 years of your life. Exactly. So anyway.

Against Walmart greeners. But that's not how I want to spend my 70s. Here's the thing, though, is they call this the perfect storm. Like let's say you got a like your house. Let's say I come in and I rip off a bunch of shingles. and then I kick down a window, and then I knocked down a door, and then I knocked down some walls,

and then I let the taps go and flood the basement. And I just purposely wreck it time and time again. You don't just say, oh, this is a perfect storm. You say, quit wrecking my shit. And that's exactly what the liberal government is doing right now. And a lot of cases, the provincial governments too. Like, this is not a perfect storm. This is just bad policy.

This is just the liberal government. Federal liberals face criticism about 875 million in missing mental health spending. Okay. I found this interesting right off the bat because the way it's phrased in the headline and global, I'm not sure if they actually just thought they'd get more clicks out of it or maybe the tide's starting to turn. Or as you've seen a few times with headlines in the Toronto Star and Global lately, the people writing them just don't have a very strong grasp of grammar, shall we say, which is kind of you'd think.

For the amount of money we give these assholes, they can fucking learn to write. So anyway, it's not that the money went missing. It's just that it hasn't been spent. It hasn't been allocated even though we have a minister of mental health and some other random fucking thing. Carolyn Bennett, Carol Bennett. So we have a minister whose entire fucking purview is, is this exact thing.

And here we are a couple of years later, and they haven't even figured out what they're going to spend the money on. Meanwhile, she's been collecting her minister wage this whole time. It's the same thing, $3.1 million for zero trees. This is however much they've been spending on wages for zero return on investment,

not to think that they'd actually solve any problems if they started spending money. If anything, we should be happy that they haven't started spending the money yet. Yeah, but it's not like you're going to get back. what would twos do with over three quarters of a billion dollars? What would you do with that? Catamaran, metal detecting equipment, and scuba diving for sunken treasure.

So pretty much you'd be a great politician. Why? I don't, I don't see the, because I'm good at digging up shit. No, because I was going to give you a quarter, almost a quarter, three quarters of a billion dollars to do something with it in government. Oh, and you're like. I misunderstood completely, which is probably what they would say to. I'm sorry, I thought you made the checkout to cash. Indigenous owned beauty company, cheekbone beauty is raising awareness of the lack of clean water reserves

with a line of unusable lip glosses inspired by contaminated water. Yeah, so this is, I mean, it's, I quite like this story. So they've got like E. coli kiss and luscious lead and mercury shimmer. And they made this fake line of beauty products made with indigenous water, which, you know, you'd think like, oh, you've got Evian, which comes from some mountain in France and Fiji. I can't remember the name of the mountain that comes from. It'll come to me later, right? but you've got all this famous water from famous places and it goes into all this fancy shit. I mean, you think like Himalayan Seasol, right?

Where they just put it right on its head and our federal government has been shitting the bed on Aboriginal water for generations. And our provincial governments should have long stepped up by now and said, look, obviously they can't figure it out so someone's going to. And I think that this is just a really good one. way to point out that everybody involved sucks. I thought I was going to have to fight you on this because I was like, if Tews doesn't say this is a great idea about what they're doing, I'm like, man, I'm like, I actually like with this, with this, this cheekbone, uh, beauty is doing.

Like I was like, like, I thought there was going to be a pun to your joke. I thought you're going to have something. But I'm like, literally, this is a giant issue. And nobody seems to be able to fix it. And the only way to seem to really enact any change in our government is when something you shame them that's right by high profile right like you know you get right uh ray ryan whitney of spitting checkouts uh stuck in the toronto airport all some things are changing moving and shaking or you make these and point out that it's coming from uh dirty water from a native reserve and all of a sudden uh things can move and shake i thought this actually might work you just you just assumed i was going to be a dick face about this pretty much old miner in can of

finds a mummified 35,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth, your happy moment of the week. Good sir. Yeah. And speaking of doing people cold. Jesus Christ. Yeah. So anyway, this is, this was good. Somewhere up in the Yukon, Klondike, someplace called Eureka Creek. They found, I, it's, I never really understood this. Like, they found that ancliosaurus up by Fort Mac a few years ago. And they're, they're just, they've got some big fucking earth hole, earth moving equipment that's just digging right in. And they're like, oh, I hit something.

How do you feel like, I mean, first off, ankyosaur, I think it's not ankyosaurus. But how do you even feel? And you're like, well, that doesn't feel like regular dirt or regular rock. That feels like fossil. That's talent. And then this to be like, oh, we just hit something. It feels mummified.

I don't even know how they came across it. Right? Honestly, like I don't know. It's a guy who's been, that's a guy or girl who's been working the controls for a long time. They just know. Well, I mean, we talked about women drivers last week, so we'll make it two weeks in a row, right? Tune into that one if you haven't already. But yeah, so they pulled it out.

It's the best preserved mummified mammal found on this continent to date. And it's 35,000 years old. I did think it was kind of weird, though, that, I mean, it predated human. being here by several thousand years and they they had an indigenous ceremony about it which i didn't quite understand i don't know maybe there's some context that was missing did they say on a side note uh with all that being said did they say where they're taking it to like is like is it like is it going to go on exhibit i'm guessing it's wouldn't you want to 35000 year old mummified mammoth like to me i would like i'm rather curious oh you know what she played rosy in the

Flintstones. Oh, yeah. There's going to be like six people laughing their asses off at that and everybody else is going to be like, what the fuck is he saying? I think that pretty much the entire episode. That's fair. That's very fair. Well, Tuesday, thanks for another week, big fella.

All right. This has been awesome. Thanks, Sean.